A new family of high-current cyclotrons for isotope production
Author(s)
Winklehner, Daniel
Alonso, Jose R.
Conrad, Janet
Date Issued
June 27, 2024
Journal
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Citation
Winklehner, D., Alonso, J.R. & Conrad, J. A new family of high-current cyclotrons for isotope production. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 333, 6065–6078 (2024).
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
We are developing a high-current cyclotron as a driver for the IsoDAR neutrino experiment. It accelerates 5 mA of H2 + to 60 MeV/amu, after which the electron is removed to produce a 10 mA, 60 MeV proton beam. The enabling innovations that offset space-charge effects occur at injection and in the first few turns, allowing one to construct cyclotrons with energies ranging from below 5 MeV up to 60 MeV/amu, or possibly higher, with the same performance for accelerated ions with Q/A = 0.5 (H2+, D+, He++, …). In this paper, we discuss the possible uses of such cyclotrons for isotope production, including production of long-lived generator parents (68Ga, 44Ti, 82Sr,…), as well as intense fast neutron beams from deuteron breakup for (n,2n) production of isotopes like 225Ac.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-024-09533-3
